Authoritarian Influence in International Organizations: The Case of Interpol

May 16, 2019

By Edward Lemon
In late 2018, Interpol, the world’s 194-member police cooperation organization, made international headlines when its president, Meng Hongwei, former vice-minister of public security in China, fell victim to the very anti-corruption campaign his organization had enabled. After myster ...

A Ray of Hope in the Haze: Disinformation and the Slovak Presidential Election

May 14, 2019

By Katarína Klingová
Many see the election of Zuzana Čaputová to the Slovak presidency as a hopeful sign for Central European politics. A lawyer and activist for anti-corruption and environmental causes, Čaputová received more than 40 percent of the vote in the first round of the election; second-pl ...

By Armando Chaguaceda and Maria Werlau
Joseph Nye, who coined the post-Cold War concept of “soft power,” explained: “A country’s soft power can come from three resources: its culture… its political values… and its foreign policies… Like any form of power, it can be wielded for good ...

By Eileen Donahoe and Megan MacDuffee Metzger
Around the world, concern about the consequences of our growing reliance upon artificial intelligence (AI) is rising. Perhaps the darkest concerns relate to development of AI by authoritarian regimes, some of which are devoting massive resources toward a ...